More than a million years ago, a prehistoric “quicksand trap” caused numerous elephants to perish. A team of researchers from institutions in Spain was studying an archaeological site called Fuenta ...

The elephant fossils themselves were found in 2000 in Pampore in the Kashmir Valley, India, and date back to between 300,00 and 400,000 years ago. However, quite which species the fossils belonged ...

The giant fossil skull of an extinct elephant, discovered in northern India’s Kashmir Valley in 2000, sheds light on a poorly known episode in elephant evolutionary history.